Compsocerops
Appearance
Compsocerops Temporal range: Late Triassic
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Order: | †Temnospondyli |
Suborder: | †Stereospondyli |
Family: | †Chigutisauridae |
Genus: | †Compsocerops Sengupta, 1995 |
Species: | †C. cosgriffi
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Binomial name | |
†Compsocerops cosgriffi Sengupta, 1995
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Compsocerops is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian that lived during the Late Triassic in what is now India[1], Argentina, Australia, South Africa and Brazil[2].
References
- ^ D. P. Sengupta. 1995. Chigutisaurid temnospondyls from the Late Triassic of India and a review of the Family Chigutisauridae. Palaeontology 38(2):313-339
- ^ Dias-da-Silva, Sérgio, et al. 2011. The presence of Compsocerops (Brachyopoidea: Chigutisauridae) (Late Triassic) in southern Brazil with comments on chigutisaurid palaeobiogeography. Palaeontology 55(1):163-172